Improvement in ovee-shoes



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LEWIS ELLIOTT, AJR., OF NEW HAV-EN, CONNECTICUT, SSIGNOR TO L. CANDEE & CO., OF SAME PLACE., i

. Lettr'rsPatent No. 76,731, dated April- 14, '18681 IMPROVEMENT 1N OVER-SHOES.

To ALL- wHoM IT. MAY CONQERN Be it known'that I, LEWIs ELLIOTT, Jr., of New Have-n, in the 'county of New Haven, and State of Connecticut, have invented a nw'Improvcment in Over-Shoes and I do hereby declare the following, when token in connection with`the accompanyingfdrawings, and the letters ot` reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of th'o same, and 'which said. drawings constitute part of this specication, and .represent, in-v- Figure 1, a perspective view, and in Figure-2 diagram' of the clot-h upper. i t

This invention relates to an' improvement iu the common rubber shoe, the object being to give to the shoe the appearance of a rubber foxng andA fabricated upper, and so as to possess the advantages of that class of shoes, but produced atlless expense; and my inventionlconsists in applying to the'eommon rubber shoe, while in a plasti'c state, n partial upper cut from any suitable fabricated material, thevsaid'upper being placed upon the shoe'so es to show a foxing of rubber, and secured to the shoe and completed by the process ot vulcanization.`

Heretofore,`in the construction of this el'assot shoesa foxing has been applied to atnbricated uppeigthe upper extending down inside the rubber to the.sole of the shoe, and the edge bound by a narrow coating of' India rubber. This construction requires a greater amount of labor sndmo're' expense of material than by my improvement. A

- To enable others to construct my improvcmen-I will proceed to describe the same as illustratedfn'tlie accompanying drawings.

The shoe, as seen ng. 1, is first formed-iuthe-usual mnnner'of forming entire rubber shoes, `that is to say, with an entire upper of India rubber. From a. suitable fabric I cut an upper, A, nearly as denoted in iig. 2; then,'while the sho'c is in a plastic state, and upon the last, I place the fabric thus cut,l as seen in preparing it so as to unite with the plastic upper; lthen submit the whole to the process of-vulcanization', which 'secures the upper to the shoe, and thus I' produce a shoe, possessing fully all the, qualities of the cloth and; Arubber shoe heretofore manufactured, and this by the use of much less of the fabricated material than ,heretofore used.` Y t The upper edge should be set so-as to show a narrow edge of rubber around the top, as seen in fig. 1, andi this edge being corded, or thicker than the other portions of the rubber, projects over and protects the upper edge of the cloth. v

I do not wish to bc understood as broadly 'claimingy an over-shoe, the foxing of 'which is of rubber, and the upper composed of two fsbries. cemented together and attached to the fnrng, as such, Iam aware, is common and well known.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I cltim as new and useful, and desire to secure b'y Letters 'APatent, is V f v An over-shoe, formed from Indie. rubber in the usual manner, and provided with a fabricated upper, A, when the said upper is applied thereto in'themanner horei'n set forth.

' LEWIS ELLIOTT, JR.

Witnesses:

A. J. TIBBITS, J. H. SHUMWAY. 

